Poring over the works of Dr. Seuss, the adventures of the Bernstain Bears or exploring the worlds of Hans Christian Andersen with a child has always been a great parent-child bonding exercise. But, ...

Barbara Gottschalk is an English language acquisition teacher and an America Achieves fellow. House Bill 4822, popularly known as the Third Grade Reading Bill, aims to help Michigan students by ...

Sesame Street characters and children from the Garden of Dreams Foundation celebrate the 30th anniversary of Sesame Street Live on Feb. 4, 2010 in New York City. As a child growing up in a ...

As more states and districts are embracing the “science of reading,” some educators and advocates have raised the question: Will these methods work for English-language learners? The “science of ...

There are many sounds in English that don’t exist in Spanish, and vice versa. Take the sound the letter “z” makes in English, or the rolled “r” in Spanish. In the Southside independent school district ...

English learners need foundational skills like phonics and vocabulary in addition to instruction in speaking and understanding English and connections to their home languages. Those are two agreements ...

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Walk into any bookstore or library, and you'll find shelves and shelves of hugely popular novels and book series for kids. But research shows that as young readers get older, they are not moving to ...

Immigrant parents worry their children will struggle with reading and fret that as non-English speakers, they can't help. A new study shows that's simply not true. Reading to a young child in any ...